All Of Us Are Dead's Squid Game Actress Is Its Best Character Trick

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This article contains SPOILERS for All of Us Are Dead

Both played by Lee Yoo-Mi, Squid Game’s Ji-yeong, and All of Us Are Dead’s Lee Na-yeon help establish a clever link between the two shows. Two of Netflix's newest hists, Squid Game and All of Us Are Dead have dominated social media thanks to their entertaining high-stakes premises. While the similarities end there, the productions share a parallel casting that could make for an interesting watch of both shows.

Released in September 2021, Squid Game climbed to the top of streaming charts with the story of the survival game that brought together people in need of money or redemption for a chance of winning a billionaire prize. Throughout its first season, Squid Game surprised audiences by placing its characters in increasingly dangerous challenges. The newly-released All of Us Are Dead is also about survival but in a completely different setting. After a troubled scientist creates a new virus, the students of a local school have to fight zombies and humans to stay alive. Each in its way, both shows get viewers to choose favorite characters to root for until the very end.

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Those who have watched both Squid Game and All of Us Are Dead might have spotted that Ji-yeong and Lee Na-yeon are played by the same actress, Lee Yoo-Mi. The similarity between the characters does not go beyond that, as Player 240 and the zombie apocalypse survivor could not be more different. Amidst all the selfishness and survival instinct displayed by many of the Squid Game characters, Ji-yeong came out as a good, trustable person who did not put her own interests above others. Lee Na-yeon, on the other hand, is one of the more